MacOS – Can Lion support resolutions higher than 1920 by 1200 on the retina MBP main display

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The new retina display MacBook Pro is advertised to have a native display resolution of 2880 by 1800. On the Lion 10.7.4 build, the system preferences limits the highhest resolution at 1920 by 1200.

Can this be raised easily in Lion? (and are there any undesirable side effects to changing this?)

Best Answer

Yes, with a little help you can get to the native resolution and a few others as well.

Have a look at: http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/18/3-ways-to-run-a-retina-macbook-pro-at-2880x1800-native-resolution/

The article mentions 4 software products that allow easy setting of the resolution without using Apple's display pane.

  • SwitchResX
  • SetResX
  • scrutil
  • ChangeResolution

Good luck reading small type, though ;)